If I had a voice to sing, I would sing you the psalm of horses. I tell you, no other animal has descended so in scale from the first innocent falling of the world.
9 seconds sound clip from the Ben-Hur (1959) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:46:16.312 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Tell me, my friend, could you make my four run as one?
- Would your caravan rest until daylight tomorrow?
- We have time enough to eat, drink and talk. Come into my tent and refresh yourself.
- And let me hear how you raced in Rome.
- And tomorrow, I shall put Antares on the inside.
- When you do, shorten the yoke. It will help them in the turns.
- Judah Ben-Hur. You're a Jew, yet you drove in the great circus.
- Yes.
- By a strange choice and a stranger fortune.
- Your coming here was so fit, so right. We might have achieved wonders. But you have to go.
- I make a journey which will not wait.
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